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Date:      Tue, 21 Nov 2000 19:23:32 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Thread-specific data and KSEs
Message-ID:  <20001121192331.E18037@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1001121221431.26351B-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>; from eischen@vigrid.com on Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 10:15:28PM -0500
References:  <20001121175100.B18037@fw.wintelcom.net> <Pine.SUN.3.91.1001121221431.26351B-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>

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* Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> [001121 19:15] wrote:
> > 
> > Don't more segment registers cause more overhead for context switches?
> 
> It's just one more register that has to be saved.  I don't
> think it's going to matter much.

No extra TLB faults/invalidations?  Aren't segment registers
somewhat expensive to load?

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."


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